Data analytics for the internet of things

ABSTRACT

A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method for managing data from an Internet of Things (IoT) Device, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method comprising receiving data from the IoT Device, analyzing the data using an analytic filter, and updating a mobile device based on the analyzing.

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TECHNICAL FIELD

This invention relates to data storage.

BACKGROUND

Computer systems are constantly improving in terms of speed,reliability, and processing capability. As is known in the art, computersystems which process and store large amounts of data typically includeone or more processors in communication with a shared data storagesystem in which the data is stored. The data storage system may includeone or more storage devices, usually of a fairly robust nature anduseful for storage spanning various temporal requirements, e.g., diskdrives. The one or more processors perform their respective operationsusing the storage system. Mass storage systems (MSS) typically includean array of a plurality of disks with on-board intelligent andcommunications electronics and software for making the data on the disksavailable.

Companies that sell data storage systems and the like are very concernedwith providing customers with an efficient data storage solution thatminimizes cost while meeting customer data storage needs. It would bebeneficial for such companies to have a way for reducing the complexityof implementing data storage.

SUMMARY

A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method formanaging data from an Internet of Things (IoT) Device, the system,computer program product, and computer-executable method comprisingreceiving data from the IoT Device, analyzing the data using an analyticfilter, and updating a mobile device based on the analyzing.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Objects, features, and advantages of embodiments disclosed herein may bebetter understood by referring to the following description inconjunction with the accompanying drawings. The drawings are not meantto limit the scope of the claims included herewith. For clarity, notevery element may be labeled in every figure. The drawings are notnecessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustratingembodiments, principles, and concepts. Thus, features and advantages ofthe present disclosure will become more apparent from the followingdetailed description of exemplary embodiments thereof taken inconjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a simplified illustration of a mobile device in communicationwith an analysis device, in accordance with an embodiment of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 2 is a simplified illustration of a mobile device in communicationwith a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in an apartment, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is an alternate simplified illustration of a mobile device incommunication with a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in anapartment, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a simplified flowchart of a method of managing sensory datafrom an Internet of Things (IoT) Device, in accordance with anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is an alternate simplified flowchart of a method of managingsensory data from an Internet of Things (IoT) Device as shown in FIG. 1,in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a simplified illustration of a wireless control devicemanaging sensory data from an automobile, in accordance with anembodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a simplified illustration of a mobile device managing sensorydata received from a plurality of Internet of Things Devices, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is an example of an embodiment of an apparatus that may utilizethe techniques described herein, in accordance with an embodiment of thepresent disclosure; and

FIG. 9 is an example of a method embodied on a computer readable storagemedium that may utilize the techniques described herein, in accordancewith an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Like reference symbols in the various drawings indicate like elements.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Traditionally, smart devices are becoming commonplace in vehicles,homes, and a part of everyday life. Generally, smart devices areconnected to the Internet and allow for collection of large amounts ofinformation that can generate huge amounts of data. Typically, in anenvironment including an internet of things, copious amounts of sensorydata can be collected and a majority of the collected data is discarded.Traditionally, as data storage is a finite resource, much of thecollected data must be discarded due to the lack of space. Generally,valuable information is lost due to lack of space and/or lack of abilityto properly process the copious amounts of collected sensory data.Conventionally, the data storage industry would benefit from being ableto efficiently parse, utilize, and/or minimize the storage footprint ofcollected data.

Traditionally, an Internet of Things (IoT) is the interconnection ofuniquely identifiable embedded computing devices within the existinginternet infrastructure. Conventionally, an IoT Device offers advancedconnectivity of devices, systems, and servers that include a variety ofprotocols, domains, and application. Typically, IoT Devices are becomingmore commonplace in daily life and are able to provide sensory data fromeveryday objects in life, such as in vehicles, airplanes, and otherdevices in and around the home. Conventionally, IoT Devices are able toprovide a huge amount of Sensory Data providing users of the IoT Devicesboth useful and useless information about a user's life and interactionwith their IoT Devices.

Traditionally, the amount of sensory and monitoring raw data that isproduced by Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing at a pace thatwill overload the capacity of global storage and available internetbandwidth. Generally, not all raw data has valuable information, yetthere are not efficient means to reduce the raw data to usefulinformation using big data analytic methods. Conventionally, the numberof smart devices and/or appliances will grow at a pace that will requirea large amount of cloud storage space for storing data with a low valueof information. Typically, retrieving raw sensory data from smartdevices and/or appliances and analyzing the raw data required a lot ofnetwork infrastructure and/or bandwidth.

In many embodiments, the current disclosure may enable creation of ananalysis device to collect and analyze sensor data from Internet ofThings (IoT) devices. In various embodiments, the current disclosure mayenable an analysis device to communicate with one or more IoT Devices.In certain embodiments, an analysis device may be enabled to update oneor more mobile devices with the sensor data, or information relating tothe sensor data, received from one or more IoT Devices. In someembodiments, a mobile device may be enabled to manage an analysis deviceremotely. In other embodiments, an analysis device may be incorporatedinto a mobile device.

In most embodiments, the current disclosure may enable an analysisdevice to use one or more analytic filters on sensor data received fromIoT Devices. In various embodiments, the use of one or more analyticfilters on sensor data may be enabled to reduce the total amount ofsensor data. In certain embodiments, an analysis device may be enabledto compress sensor data received from IoT Devices. In some embodiments,an analytic filter may be enabled to reduce the total amount of datapoints and/or amount of data while retaining the fidelity of the data.In many embodiments, a user and/or administrator may be enabled todirect an analysis device to filter received data to a specifiedfidelity. In various embodiments, a user and/or administrator may beenabled to manage an analysis device using a mobile device. In manyembodiments, a user and/or administrator may be enabled to create and/ormodify one or more analytic filters to analyze and/or filter datareceived by an analysis device. In various embodiments, an analyticfilter may be enabled to process data from one or more sources of sensordata.

In most embodiments, filtered and/or unfiltered sensor data may bestored locally in an analysis device and/or remotely. In theseembodiments, remotely stored data may be stored within one or more cloudstorage providers and/or data storage external to the analysis device.In various embodiments, external data storage may include, but is notlimited to, a data storage array, fast data storage appliance, and/orother data storage appliance. In some embodiments, data marked to bestored remotely may be chosen based on an output of using an analyticfilter on sensor data. In many embodiments, an analysis device may beenabled to manage how much data and/or how quickly received data may bemigrated to external data storage.

In many embodiments, an analysis device may include, but is not limitedto, an analysis module, data management module, output managementmodule, interface module, and/or data storage. In various embodiments,an analysis module may be enabled to utilize one or more analyticfilters to analyze and/or filter received data. In these embodiments, ananalysis module may be enabled to receive user and/or administratordefined analytic filters to use on received sensor data. In certainembodiments, a data management module may be enabled to manage and/ormigrate data which may reside on internal data storage, external datastorage, and/or within a cloud storage provider. In other embodiments, adata management module may be enabled to compress data for storageand/or migration to external data storage and/or a cloud storageprovider. In other embodiments, an output management module may beenabled to format stored data for viewing by mobile devices incommunication with the analysis device. In most embodiments, aninterface module may enable an analysis device to communicate with oneor more IoT Devices, one or more mobile devices, and/or one or moreexternal data storage devices (i.e., a data storage array and/or CloudStorage Provider).

In most embodiments, an analysis device may be enabled to monitor and/oranalyze one or more types of data from one or more defined areas, suchas, but not limited to, a house, apartment, automobile, airplane, and/orother defined area. For example, in an embodiment, one or more IoTdevices may be used through a household to collectively measure thepower consumption of the household. In this embodiment, while an IoTdevice at the power meter of the entire house can record data relatingto the average and peak power consumption of the house overall, an IoTdevice at the power meter cannot detect how much one or more applianceswithin the house affect power consumption of the household. In thisembodiment, if each appliance within the household is IoT enabled, ahome owner can use data collected to gain a better picture of the powerconsumption of the entire household. In addition, in this embodiment, ahomeowner will be enabled to detect that peak power consumption hasoccurred and, by using analytic filters on the received data from theIoT devices, will be enabled to determine which appliances and/ordevices within the home consume the most power and/or cause the peakpower level to be reached.

Further, in this embodiment, an analysis device will enable a homeownerto analyze the workload of each appliance and/or device within theirhome. Data collected from these IoT devices can be filtered and/orcompressed and moved to the cloud. In many embodiments, an analysisdevice may be enabled to use data stored within the cloud to search forother IoT appliances and/or devices that are similar to IoT appliancesand/or devices in a user's household. In various embodiments, a user maybe enabled to use data found in the cloud from devices similar to auser's household IoT devices and/or appliances to determine whether adevice and/or appliance is behaving and/or performing similar to othersimilar devices and/or appliances. In certain embodiments, if ananalysis device determines that an appliance and/or device in ahousehold operates within specifications compared to other similarappliances and/or devices, the analysis device may be enabled to removeone or more warnings to the user of the household.

In many embodiments, an analysis device may be enabled to receive dataanalytics from a plurality of IoT devices and may allow users todownload different analytic filters that may be used to analyze receivedsensor data. In various embodiments, an analysis device may be enabledto utilize one or more analytic filters on one or more portions ofreceived sensory data. In some embodiments, a mobile device may beenabled to measure the amount of information received from each IoTdevice in communication with the mobile device. In most embodiments, amobile device may enable users to select a level of precision and/ordetail by which the mobile device analyzes received sensor data.

In various embodiments, an analysis device may be enabled to use dataanalysis filters to reduce an amount of raw data to important sensoryinformation. In most embodiments, an analysis device may enable a userto compress and analyze received sensory data to reduce the amount ofstorage space required for the analyzed data. In some embodiments, ananalysis device may be enabled to use data analysis filters to reducethe amount of network Bandwidth required to transfer received data tocloud data storage. In most embodiments, a data analytics filter mayimplement one or more algorithms that may reduce data to only relevantinformation using machine learning techniques to analyze data andextract relevant information in relation to the specific IoT devices andspecific to usage of the data to collect the user specific information.

In many embodiments, the current disclosure may enable a mobile deviceto manage an analysis device that may be enabled to receive data fromone or more sources of sensor data from one or more IoT devices. Incertain embodiments, a mobile device may be enabled to direct ananalysis device to analyze, compress, and/or filter received data basedon user defined parameters.

In many embodiments, the current disclosure may enable an analysisdevice to reduce the amount of data received from each IoT applianceand/or device. In various embodiments, the total stream of data receivedfrom each IoT appliance and/or device within a defined area (i.e.,household, apartment, car, airplane, data center, and/or other definedarea) may be too much to save forever within the cloud. In certainembodiments, an analysis device may be enabled to sample received datafrom IoT devices and/or appliances based on the frequency of receivingdata points. In some embodiments, an IoT device and/or appliance mayupdate an analysis device every quarter second, however, data from theIoT device and/or appliance may only be useful stored at 1 data pointevery 10 seconds. In other embodiments, an analysis device may beenabled to adjust sampling rates on each IoT device and/or appliancebased on the amount of data received and/or based on user input.

Information regarding data compression, metadata compression, andanalytics filters may be found in U.S. patent application Ser. No.13/799,228 entitled “PARALLEL COMPRESSION OF DATA CHUNKS OF A SHAREDDATA OBJECT USING A LOG-STRUCTURED FILE SYSTEM” U.S. patent applicationSer. No. 14/041,872 entitled “METADATA COMPRESSION,” and U.S. Pat. No.8,868,576 entitled “STORING FILES IN A PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM BASEDON USER-SPECIFIED PARSER FUNCTION” which are commonly assigned herewithand incorporated by reference herein.

Refer to the example embodiment of FIG. 1. FIG. 1 is a simplifiedillustration of a mobile device in communication with an analysisdevice, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. Asshown, Analysis device 100 includes interface 105, Analysis module 110,data management module 115, output management module 120, and fast datastorage 125. Analysis Device 100 is enabled to communicate with CloudStorage Provider 135 using Network 140. Analysis Device 100 is incommunication with data storage 155. In many embodiments, external datastorage may be a data storage array, Cloud Storage Provider, and/orother data storage appliance. Analysis Device 100 is enabled tocommunicate with IoT device 150 using Interface 105. In this embodiment,mobile device 145 is in communication with Analysis Device 100 throughNetwork 140. Mobile device 145 is enabled to utilize Analysis Device 100to analyze, manage, and/or augment sensory data received by AnalysisDevice 100 from IoT devices. Mobile device 145 is enabled to directAnalysis Device 100 to store received sensory data within fast datastorage 125, data storage 155, and/or within CSP 135. In someembodiments, an analysis device may be in communication with a cloudstorage provider and may be enabled to upload data to the cloud storageprovider as needed.

Refer to the example embodiment of FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a simplifiedillustration of a mobile device in communication with a plurality ofInternet of Things (IoT) devices in an apartment, in accordance with anembodiment of the present disclosure. Apartment 200 includes a pluralityof IoT devices that are enabled to record and/or send sensory data uponrequest. In this embodiment, Apartment 200 includes IoT devices withintoilet 240, Washer and Dryer 235, Hot water heater 230, refrigerator225, stove 220, fire alarms 205, 215, thermostat 210, and television250. Each of the IoT devices is in communication with Analysis Device245. Mobile device 255 is in communication with Analysis device 245 andis enabled to receive sensory data from each IoT device within apartment200.

In some embodiments, an analysis device may include a wireless routerand/or analysis device to execute analysis filters on data received fromeach IoT device within the apartment. In various embodiments, ananalysis device may store locally data received from each IoT deviceregistered with the analysis device. In certain embodiments, an analysisdevice may update one or more mobile devices in communication with thewireless control device. In some embodiments, a wireless control devicemay be enabled to upload received sensory data to one or more cloudstorage providers and/or external data storage.

In FIG. 2, IoT Device within toilet 240 is enabled to provide sensorydata related to water usage. IoT Device within Washer and Dryer 235 isenabled to provide sensory data related to utility usage, applianceefficiency, and/or other sensory data. IoT Device within hot waterheater 230 is enabled to provide sensory data related to utility usage,appliance efficiency, and/or other sensory data. IoT Device withinrefrigerator 225 is enabled to provide sensory data related to utilityusage, appliance efficiency, temperature readings from one or moreplaces within refrigerator 225, and/or other sensory data. IoT Devicewithin stove 220 is enabled to provide sensory data related to utilityusage, appliance efficiency, maintenance information, and/or othersensory data. IoT Devices within Fire Alarms 215, 205 are enabled toprovide sensory data related to the operation of fire alarms 215, 205.For example, in this embodiment, fire alarms 215, 205 are enabled toprovide sensory data on carbon monoxide levels, particulate levels,and/or visibility within apartment 200. IoT Device within thermostat 210is enabled to provide sensory data relating to utility usage, heatand/or A/C activity, daily temperature, and/or other sensory data. IoTDevice within television 250 is enabled to provide sensory data relatedto utility usage, hours of usage, type of usage, and/or other sensorydata. Mobile device 255 is enabled to retrieve one or more portions ofsensory data provided by toilet 240, hot water heater 230, washer anddryer 235, refrigerator 225, stove 220, fire alarms 205, 215, thermostat210, and television 250 using analysis device 245.

In this embodiment, Mobile device 255 is enabled to direct analysisdevice 245 to execute one or more analytic filters on one or moreportions of sensory data received from IoT devices within apartment 200.Mobile device 255 is enabled to direct analysis device 245 to compressone or more portions of sensory data received from IoT devices withinApartment 200. Mobile device 255 is enabled to direct analysis device245 to upload stored sensory data to one or more cloud storageproviders. Mobile device 255 is enabled to upload filtered sensory datato one or more cloud storage providers.

Refer to the example embodiment of FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is an alternatesimplified illustration of a mobile device in communication with aplurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in an apartment, inaccordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. In thisembodiment, apartment 300 includes refrigerator 320, thermostat 325,water heater 330, fire alarm 335, Analysis device 340, and Wide AreaNetwork (WAN) 315. Refrigerator 320, thermostat 325, water heater 330,and fire alarm 335 each include an IoT device enabled to record sensorydata and send the sensory data to Analysis device 340 using WAN 315.Analysis device 340 is enabled to communicate to cloud storage provider(CSP) 305 using WAN 315 and internet 310. Mobile device 345 is enabledto communicate with wireless control device using either WAN 315 orinternet 310. Mobile device 345 is enabled to execute one or moreanalytic filters on sensory data received by Analysis device 340. Mobiledevice 345 is enabled to direct wireless control device 340 to uploadreceived sensory data to CSP 305 and/or upload filtered sensory data toCSP 305.

Refer to the example embodiments of FIGS. 1 and 4. FIG. 4 is asimplified flowchart of a method of managing sensory date from anInternet of Things (IoT) Device, in accordance with an embodiment of thepresent disclosure. Analysis Device 100 receives sensory data from IoTDevice 150 through network 140 (Step 400). Wireless Control AnalysisDevice 100 utilizes analysis module 110 to analyze received data (Step410). Analysis module 110 is enabled to determine if mobile device 145has directed analysis module 110 to augment sensory data from IoT Device150. In many embodiments, an analysis module may be enabled to augmentsensory data by compressing the sensory data, increasing and/ordecreasing fidelity of the sensory data, and/or processing the sensorydata. Analysis Device 100 updates mobile device 145 through network 140(Step 420). An administrator and/or user uses Mobile Device 145 todirect Analysis device 100 to filter sensory data received from IoTDevice 150. Analysis Device 100 uses analysis module 110 to filtersensory data (Step 430) and store results in fast data storage 125. DataManagement module 115 periodically uploads filtered sensory data storedon data storage 125 to Cloud Storage Provider 135 (Step 440).

Refer to the example embodiment of FIGS. 1 and 5. FIG. 5 is an alternatesimplified flowchart of a method of managing sensory data from anInternet of Things (IoT) Device as shown in FIG. 1, in accordance withan embodiment of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 1, Analysisdevice 100 receives sensory data from IoT Device 150 (Step 500).Analysis Device 100 utilizes analysis module 110 to analyze receivedsensory data (Step 510). Data management module 115 compresses sensorydata (Step 520) and stores compressed sensory data on fast data storage125. Periodically, Data Management module 115 uploads compressed sensorydata to Cloud Storage Provider 135 using network 140 (Step 530).

Refer to the example embodiment of FIG. 6. FIG. 6 is a simplifiedillustration of a wireless control device managing sensory data from anautomobile, in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure.As shown, automobile 615 includes Analysis device 620 and is incommunication with internet 610. In this embodiment, automobile 615includes a plurality of Internet of Things enabled devices which areenabled to record sensory data from automobile 615. In this embodiment,automobile 615 includes IoT devices in the brakes, engine, and placedthroughout automobile 615. Each IoT Device is enabled to send sensorydata to Analysis device 620. Analysis device 620 is enabled to analyzeand/or compress received sensory data and periodically upload receiveddata to cloud storage provider 605.

Refer to the example embodiment of FIG. 7. FIG. 7 is a simplifiedillustration of a mobile device managing sensory data received from aplurality of Internet of Things Devices, in accordance with anembodiment of the present disclosure. As shown, the IoT devices includerefrigerator 720, thermostat 725, water heater 730, and fire alarm 735.Each IoT device is in communication with WAN 715 which enablescommunication with mobile device 745. In this embodiment, an Analysisdevice is integrated into mobile device 745, which enables mobile device745 to receive, analyze and/or compress sensory data from each IoTDevice. Mobile device 745 is in communication with Cloud Storageprovider 705 through internet 710. In this embodiment, Mobile Device 745is enabled to upload processed sensory data from each IoT Device to CSP705.

The methods and apparatus of this invention may take the form, at leastpartially, of program code (i.e., instructions) embodied in tangiblenon-transitory media, such as floppy diskettes, CD-ROMs, hard drives,random access or read only-memory, or any other machine-readable storagemedium.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus, such as a computer810 in a network 800, which may utilize the techniques described hereinaccording to an example embodiment of the present invention. Thecomputer 810 is configured interact with multiple data sources 801 via anetwork 850. The computer 810 may include one or more I/O ports 802, aprocessor 803, and memory 804, all of which may be connected by aninterconnect 825, such as a bus. Processor 803 may include program logic805. The I/O port 802 may provide connectivity to memory media 883, I/Odevices 885, and drives 887, such as magnetic or optical drives. Thecomputer 810 interfaces via a network 880 with a report device 890 and adisplay 889. The computer 810 also interfaces via the network 880 withan additional processing system denoted as second processing system 895.When the program code is loaded into memory 804 and executed by thecomputer 810, the machine becomes an apparatus for practicing theinvention. When implemented on one or more general-purpose processors803, the program code combines with such a processor to provide a uniqueapparatus that operates analogously to specific logic circuits. As such,a general purpose digital machine can be transformed into a specialpurpose digital machine.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram illustrating a method embodied on a computerreadable storage medium 960 that may utilize the techniques describedherein according to an example embodiment of the present invention. FIG.9 shows Program Logic 955 embodied on a computer-readable medium 960 asshown, and wherein the Logic is encoded in computer-executable codeconfigured for carrying out the methods of this invention and therebyforming a Computer Program Product 900. Program Logic 955 may be thesame logic 805 on memory 804 loaded on processor 803 in FIG. 8. Theprogram logic may be embodied in software modules, as modules, ashardware modules, or on virtual machines.

The logic for carrying out the method may be embodied as part of theaforementioned system, which is useful for carrying out a methoddescribed with reference to embodiments shown in, for example, FIGS.1-9. For purposes of illustrating the present invention, the inventionis described as embodied in a specific configuration and using speciallogical arrangements, but one skilled in the art will appreciate thatthe device is not limited to the specific configuration but rather onlyby the claims included with this specification.

Although the foregoing invention has been described in some detail forpurposes of clarity of understanding, it will be apparent that certainchanges and modifications may be practiced within the scope of theappended claims. Accordingly, the present implementations are to beconsidered as illustrative and not restrictive, and the invention is notto be limited to the details given herein, but may be modified withinthe scope and equivalents of the appended claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A computer-executable method comprising:receiving data from an Internet of Things (IoT) device, wherein the dataincludes sensor data; sampling the data; analyzing the data using ananalytic filter, wherein the analytic filter reduces an amount of thedata from a relatively larger amount of data to a relatively smalleramount of data, to thereby reduce an amount of storage space requiredfor the analyzed data; and updating a mobile device with the data basedon the analyzing; wherein the mobile device is enabled to control theanalytic filter to filter the data to a specified fidelity differentfrom a current fidelity of the data; and wherein the mobile device isenabled to control storage of at least one of the data and the reducedamount of the data in one or more data storage locations.
 2. Thecomputer-executable method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving acommand from the mobile device related to the data; and updating theanalytic filter based on the received command.
 3. Thecomputer-executable method of claim 2, wherein the received commandmodifies the analytic filter to augment the analytic filter.
 4. Thecomputer-executable method of claim 1, further comprising: periodicallysending a portion of the data to a cloud storage provider, wherein theportion of the data is outputted from the analytic filter.
 5. Thecomputer-executable method of claim 1, wherein: the IoT device isrelated to an appliance; and the computer-executable method furthercomprises: searching a cloud storage provider for a set of data createdfrom a second IoT device related to a second appliance similar to theappliance; and comparing the data to the set of data created from thesecond IoT device to determine whether the appliance is operatingcorrectly.
 6. The computer-executable method of claim 5, furthercomprising: if the appliance is not operating correctly, updating themobile device regarding an error relating to the appliance.
 7. Thecomputer-executable method of claim 1, further comprising: determining afrequency at which the data is received from the IoT device; andsampling the data based on the frequency.
 8. The computer-executablemethod of claim 1, further comprising: downloading a second analyticfilter related to a second IoT device.
 9. A system, comprising: anInternet of Things (IoT) device; and computer-executable program logicencoded in memory of one or more computers enabled to manage data fromthe IoT device, wherein the computer-executable program logic isconfigured for the execution of: receiving data from the IoT Device,wherein the data includes sensor data; sampling the data; analyzing thedata using an analytic filter, wherein the analytic filter reduces anamount of the data from a relatively larger amount of data to arelatively smaller amount of data, to thereby reduce an amount ofstorage space required for the analyzed data; and updating a mobiledevice with the data based on the analyzing; wherein the mobile deviceis enabled to control the analytic filter to filter the data to aspecified fidelity different from a current fidelity of the data; andwherein the mobile device is enabled to control storage of at least oneof the data and the reduced amount of the data in one or more datastorage locations.
 10. The system of claim 9, wherein thecomputer-executable program logic is further configured for theexecution of: receiving a command from the mobile device related to thedata; and updating the analytic filter based on the received command.11. The system of claim 10, wherein the received command modifies theanalytic filter to augment the analytic filter.
 12. The system of claim9, wherein the computer-executable program logic is further configuredfor the execution of: periodically sending a portion of the data to acloud storage provider, wherein the portion of the data is outputtedfrom the analytic filter.
 13. The system of claim 9, wherein: the IoTdevice is related to an appliance; and the computer-executable programlogic is further configured for the execution of: searching a cloudstorage provider for a set of data created from a second IoT devicerelated to a second appliance similar to the appliance; and comparingthe data to the second set of data created from the second IoT device todetermine whether the appliance is operating correctly.
 14. The systemof claim 13, wherein the computer-executable program logic is furtherconfigured for the execution of: if the appliance is not operatingcorrectly, updating the mobile device regarding an error relating to theappliance.
 15. The system of claim 9, wherein the computer-executableprogram logic is further configured for the execution of: determining afrequency at which the data is received from the IoT device; andsampling the data based on the frequency.
 16. The system of claim 9,wherein the computer-executable program logic is further configured forthe execution of: downloading a second analytic filter related to asecond IoT device.
 17. A computer program product comprising: anon-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executablecode, the code configured to enable the execution of: receiving datafrom an Internet of Things (IoT) device, wherein the data includessensor data; sampling the data; analyzing the data using an analyticfilter, wherein the analytic filter reduces an amount of the data from arelatively larger amount of data to a relatively smaller amount of data,to thereby reduce an amount of storage space required for the analyzeddata; and updating a mobile device with the data based on the analyzing;wherein the mobile device is enabled to control the analytic filter tofilter the data to a specified fidelity different from a currentfidelity of the data; and wherein the mobile device is enabled tocontrol storage of at least one of the data and the reduced amount ofthe data in one or more data storage locations.
 18. Thecomputer-executable method of claim 17, the code further configured toenable the execution of: receiving a command from the mobile devicerelated to the data; and updating the analytic filter based on thereceived command.
 19. The computer-executable method of claim 18,wherein the received command modifies the analytic filter to augment theanalytic filter.
 20. The computer-executable method of claim 17, thecode further configured to enable the execution of: periodically sendinga portion of the data to a cloud storage provider, wherein the portionof the data is outputted from the analytic filter.